Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater

An American Reception 1977-1999. Edited by Hellmut Hal Rennert.

This collection of 35 articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors’ work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century. The contributions are structured by six topics: Performance and Theory; Expressionism; Third Reich; Bertolt Brecht; Post-World War II; Contemporary. XII,321 Seiten, gebunden (New German-American Studies; vol. 19/Peter Lang Verlag 2004) Mängelexemplar/near mint